Kiteboarding Kite Preparation

"In this clip we're going to talk about all the steps that you've got to take after you have inflated your kite. Right now, we have pretty light slash marginal winds, so you know this thing isn't going to take off us, take off on us all of the sudden. But, ways to hold it down, I mean, you can use just a simple resources around you. You've got some sand, use a bag, use a board. Especially if you put a board on there, make sure you do it fins up, like the Jimmy Buffet song. Bag will do just fine right now, wind's light, don't really have to worry about it. But make sure you place it down in to the wind, all right. Setting up the bar, however, you can do it several ways. You can do it upwind of the kite, or downwind of the kite. Or, you know, the personal preference of mine is to do it kind of downwind and diagonally. If you have a really high wind day, and you're setting the kite up down wind, there's actually been instances where that kite has take off and, you know, sort of tumbled down the beach and hit the person that's trying to set up the lines. And, you know, judging by these scars like this, any time the line hits your skin, it's not a very good feeling. So, you always want to make sure you're eliminating all negligence that can really be disastrous to this whole set up process. So, what I'm going to do here is just start walking out the bar and lines down wind and a little bit diagonally, making sure I stay out of people's way. And especially if it was a crowded kite beach, you want to stay out of the way of all other kiters."